[sdiy] Did someone Hack Google? [OT]

[Thomas Laskowski]

MS Ie does sometimes install stuff on its own, and usually the crap is
hard to remove.  So do bunch of other programs such as kazaa, etc...

There is this little utility from lavasoft called adaware.
It does a nice job of removing crap and trojans, even stuff that regular
antivirus software doesn't pick up.  I ran it on my PC and it found a
bunch of junk. I now run it fairly regularly to make sure my computer is
free of junk.

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Thomas Laskowski
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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, KA4HJH wrote:

> >And just out of interest. I use Opera and NetBastard on this box and
> >neither have a default home page set. Not even my own web site. Nothing.
> >Nada. zip. Java and Java script are usually turned off and cookies blocked
> >until I specifically allow them.
>
> It'll really fun to install a new browser. The first thing I do is go into
> the prefs and turn a whole bunch of stuff off. I completely delete the
> homepage URL just because these programs keep finding their way to it even
> if I don't ask for it (it's a feature, not a bug). Then I hide 75% of all
> the helpful crap that takes up space on my screen.
>
> I suppose if I were twenty years younger I'd download a bootleg copy of
> Codewarrior and compile my own version from the source code while I'm not
> busy writing the latest worm with a name like a porno star, selling spam
> via spam, pinching zits, swilling Coke and scarfing down pizza (according
> to a recent study most "hackers" fit this limited stereotype). Sometime in
> the near future I may have to do this anyway, unless one of the gang here
> decides to go into the browser business on the side and takes custom
> software orders in between laying out PC boards and hunting for
> discontinued chips.
>
> The sad reality is that I'm sitting here getting a bit fatter, aching in
> more places than ever before, and giving thanks that I'm not losing hair
> any faster than I can pull it out. I'm dreading migrating to OS X where
> I'll be forced to learn yet another cryptic OS if I want to get anything
> done, missing all my favorite crutches that don't work in it, and trying
> desperately to throw the Dock into the trash can. I haven't even picked up
> a soldering iron in months. For those who missed it here's how much work
> space is available on my workbench right now:
>
> http://www.crowncity.net/ratcave/Bent/Workbench/Workbench1.html
>
>
> >Recently, Maxim asked me to help beta test some new software/website
> >features they were implementing. (Along with possibly thousands of others.)
> >Unfortunately this little applett only runs on IE.
>
> Is it actually in Java, the "universal language" that works across
> platforms, OS versions, browser versions, political boundaries etc?
>
>
> >Sadly I had to inform
> >them that unless the pulled their heads out their asses I couldn't help
> >them. What about the Mac users? What about the Linux users? And since M$
> >products are rapidly becoming endangered species round here, the rule of
> >thum is. "If you can't support it, I don't want it." And if more people
> >took that attitude, then companies like Maxim would think twice about being
> >proxy enforcers of the microsoft tax.
>
> And we thought the big argument was over jacks. Welcome to the future.
> --
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"
>
> "If I can't be God I don't want to play"--Aleister Crowley
>